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Patrick von Platen

First listed author of Hugging Face Diffusers; vLLM code owner for Mistral models

Patrick von Platen is the first listed author of Diffusers, Hugging Face's Apache-2.0 library of pretrained diffusion models for inference and training, and a co-author of the 2019 paper that introduced Hugging Face's Transformers library. Von Platen is listed in "The Mistral AI Team" on the Mistral NeMo model card and among the contributors to Mistral AI's Ministral 3 technical report (2026). In vLLM's CODEOWNERS file, von Platen owns the Mistral-specific files, including the model code for Mistral, Mixtral, Pixtral, and Voxtral.123456

At a glance

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Open-source work

Patrick von Platen is a co-author of the 2019 paper introducing Hugging Face's Transformers library and the first listed author in the 2022 citation entry for Diffusers, Hugging Face's library of pretrained diffusion models. In vLLM's CODEOWNERS file, von Platen is the owner of the Mistral-specific files, including model code for Mistral, Mixtral, Pixtral and Voxtral.3126

Teaching and writing

On the Hugging Face blog, von Platen wrote a 2020 guide to decoding methods for text generation with Transformers, including greedy search, beam search and sampling, and a 2021 tutorial on fine-tuning Wav2Vec2 for English speech recognition. In August 2022 von Platen co-authored the blog post introducing Stable Diffusion in Diffusers.789

Research at Mistral AI

Von Platen is listed in "The Mistral AI Team" on the Mistral NeMo model card and is an author of Mistral AI's Voxtral speech-understanding paper (2025). Von Platen also appears among the contributors to the Ministral 3 technical report (2026).4105

Work and contributions

  • Diffusers Open-source code

    Listed first among the authors in the Diffusers README citation (2022) and in the repository's CITATION.cff, which gives the license as Apache-2.0.12

  • Transformers Published research

    Co-author of the 2019 paper introducing Hugging Face's Transformers library (arXiv 1910.03771).3

  • vLLM Open-source code

    Listed in vLLM's CODEOWNERS under "Mistral-specific files" as the owner of the Mistral, Mixtral, Voxtral, and Pixtral model files, the Mistral tokenizer, and the Mistral config. The repository is licensed under Apache 2.0.611

  • Voxtral Published research

    Co-author of the 2025 Mistral AI paper describing the Voxtral speech-understanding models.10

Timeline

  1. Co-authored the paper introducing Hugging Face's Transformers library.3
  2. Published a Hugging Face blog guide to decoding methods for language generation.7
  3. Published a Hugging Face tutorial on fine-tuning Wav2Vec2 for English speech recognition.8
  4. Listed as the first author in the 2022 citation entry of the Diffusers library.12
  5. Co-authored the Hugging Face blog post introducing Stable Diffusion with Diffusers.9
  6. Co-authored the Voxtral paper from Mistral AI.10
  7. Listed among the contributors to the Ministral 3 technical report.5

Documented roles

The sources do not confirm a current role; these are the roles they document.

  • Listed in The Mistral AI Team on the Mistral NeMo model card and as a contributor to the Ministral 3 report (2026), Mistral AI45
  • Awni HannunML frameworks and libraries · Inference and serving
  • Jeff JohnsonInference and serving · ML frameworks and libraries
  • Johannes GäßlerInference and serving · ML frameworks and libraries
  • Georgi GerganovInference and serving · ML frameworks and libraries
  • Kaichao YouInference and serving · ML frameworks and libraries
  • Gavin UbertiInference and serving · ML frameworks and libraries
  • Lin QiaoInference and serving · ML frameworks and libraries
  • Dmytro DzhulgakovInference and serving · ML frameworks and libraries
  • Mark SaroufimML frameworks and libraries · Inference and serving
  • Hao ZhangInference and serving · Image, video, and 3D generation

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References

11 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. huggingface/diffusers README (citation)Hugging Face (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. huggingface/diffusers CITATION.cff (authors, license Apache-2.0)Hugging Face (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  3. HuggingFace's Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (arXiv 1910.03771)arXiv · Paper · published Oct 9, 2019 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  4. mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 model card (The Mistral AI Team)Mistral AI (Hugging Face) · Model card · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  5. Ministral 3 (arXiv 2601.08584), contributor listarXiv · Paper · published Jan 13, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  6. vllm-project/vllm CODEOWNERS (Mistral-specific files)vLLM project (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  7. How to generate text: using different decoding methods for language generation with TransformersHugging Face blog · Documentation · published Mar 1, 2020 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  8. Fine-Tune Wav2Vec2 for English ASR with TransformersHugging Face blog · Documentation · published Mar 12, 2021 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  9. Stable Diffusion with DiffusersHugging Face blog · Documentation · published Aug 22, 2022 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  10. Voxtral (arXiv 2507.13264)arXiv · Paper · published Jul 17, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  11. vllm-project/vllm LICENSE (Apache-2.0)vLLM project (GitHub repository) · License · accessed Oct 21, 2026